Friday, September 18, 2015

Pretty drinks, clean plate club and dragonfly

- Friend Leisa and I went to Cafe Sunflower in Buckhead (Atlanta) to toast her birthday (which was September 12). These are the most beautiful drinks, I think - mine is on the left: Cucumber Fizz (cucumber juice, organic Ginger beer and sake). Leisa's was a mixture of something or other with beet juice and a shot of sake. Favorite question of the evening - to the waiter: "Is that drink very beety?"

- This was a special of the evening - eggplant with a crushed walnut crust on an aioli sauce. So good! We both got that and joined the clean plate club. :) Did anyone else hear that growing up?

from Google images

- This fun little toy is "Miss Tanaka" - a dragonfly who flies into the air if you press her suction cup to a smooth service. As the suction releases, she flies straight up. We tried it at the dinner table last night and it worked! :) I spotted this while card shopping and knew my friend would like it and she did.

It's Friday! So glad for the weekend to be here. Hope yours is stellar!

Cleaning the plate was mandatory. Only illness was accepted as an excuse. I still do it - even when I don't want (or need) the last few bites.That celebratory dish sounds great - as does the dragon fly.

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I love looking for goodness, beauty, quirkiness and the unexpected in life.
Favorite quote: from author Barbara Pym’s “Less Than Angels” (1955), the protagonist, Catherine Oliphant, reflects that “the smallest things were often so much bigger than the great things … the trivial pleasures like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”